I’ve been working on my fully 3D printed engine that I mentioned a while ago, but it’s still having trouble. I’m feeling like a total overhaul redesign is in order… which I really don’t have time for. Hopefully this video will help people understand how it’s supposed to work. Progress continues. The files on thingiverse have been updated with the latest …
My Pringles Dice Tower Build
I spoke before about a dice tower made of pringles cans. I also mentioned a project that I want to work on where I build an automated dice tower to test the balance of 3D printed dice. Believe it or not that project is going forward. Since that means I’ll need some dice towers (plural because I don’t trust the randomness …
Durability test complete
7 months ago I made thebluedirt’s airport proof buckle, wove a belt out of 50 feet para cord for it and have been wearing it for about 6 months almost every day. Late last week it broke. On the bottom where the hole for the hinge is closest to the wall gave and the buckle fell out. I’m going to …
Shapesmith
Shapesmith. I have been wanting something I could recommend to people as heartily as I recommended Tinkercad before they went subscription based. Is Shapesmith that service? No. But it could be. Shapesmith is in early beta at the moment and is better suited for the draftsman than the tinkerer because it’s going to take a little while running through the tutorials before you’ll be able …
Enhancing the game
In case you’re not following my profile on Thingiverse, I uploaded a minor remix (because we’re not calling them derivatives any more I guess) this morning for a treasure chest with a lid. The modification I made really was extremely minor, just some vertex editing in Blender, but I wanted to use this excuse to talk about Heroica, since that’s what the …
Afinia Gold ABS Filament Review
I decided to try out Afinia’s value line filament and tried a spool of gold ABS because if it turns out looking good I’ve got a number of cool ideas I can use for that. In the end I have nothing but good things to say about Afinia’s filament, the gold doesn’t get a gold star. First the good: For cheap …
Printing somewhere warmer
Like I said, it’s cold right now. It’s painful to be in the garage with my Makerbot. That can’t be good for it. So in an attempt to see how bad printing in the cold, is I needed a control situation, and to show off a bit I brought my bot to work. Durring the day I printed a spool …
Store’s open, bot’s cold
Now that I’m home and can go back to filling order I’ve opened the shop back up. I’ve even added the last 2 chess sets that I finished before I left. However, now that I’m back home I’m more than a little concerned about the weather. Winter has hit and out here it’s a foot deep outside. I’m afraid an …
Where am I going to store all this stuff?
EDIT: Apparently I typed this up before the break, but forgot to hit send. It’ll be relevant to the post for tomorrow. As I make new products for the store, playing with different ideas, I’ve got to find a place to store all the stuff in a neat organized way, which means I have to go buy a parts organizer. Or …
Brainstorming the chess set
Merry Christmas to all. While getting ready for my holiday trip I found an old notebook where I brainstormed ideas for my chessbot. Here’s the earliest sketch of what eventually became my winning entry. I originally was playing with the idea of using a pawn for the head. I wanted to get a robocop vibe, but I couldn’t resolve the …